There’s a hellluva fight going on in The Philippines. There is proposed legislation intended to drag the poor country out from under the misogynist heel of the Catlick Church modernize its approach to family planning. As April Reign reported a few days ago, in a place with virtually zero access to any kind of contraception [...]
Girls and Women, Girls and Women, Girls and Women
October 25, 2007 By
We at Birth Pangs are heartily sick of this bullshit meme. From the recent throne speech: Our mission in Afghanistan is a noble and necessary endeavour. It is making a difference in the lives of men who were victims of Taliban oppression, for children forced to live in ignorance, and for women who had no [...]
Yo, John Tory! How about Abstinence Education?
September 6, 2007 By
We at Birth Pangs applaud Ontario Conservative leader John Tory’s blatant pandering to warm tolerance of religious wing-nuts. After floating the notion that teaching ‘creationism’, or Intelligent Design, or as The Wingnuterer puts it, ‘Idiot Design’, in religious schools funded by the government would be hunky-dory by John Tory, he backpedalled furiously: But six hours [...]
No talk of criminal abortion SVP – we’re French
July 22, 2007 By
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, a Romanian film about abortion, won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival; in other words, it was judged to be the best of all the movies entered in competition. Directed by Cristian Mungiu, 4 Months … takes place during the communist dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu in [...]
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